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Chapter 9
Network Management
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Chapter 9: Network Management
Chapter goals:
introduction to network management
motivation
major components
Internet network management framework
MIB: management information base
SMI: data definition language
SNMP: protocol for network management
security and administration
presentation services: ASN.1
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Chapter 9 outline
What is network management?
Internet-standard management framework
Structure of Management Information: SMI
Management Information Base: MIB
SNMP Protocol Operations and Transport Mappings
Security and Administration
ASN.1
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What is network management?
autonomous systems (aka network): 100s or 1000s
of interacting hardware/software components
other complex systems requiring monitoring, control:
jet airplane
nuclear power plant
others?
"Network management includes the deployment, integration
and coordination of the hardware, software, and human
elements to monitor, test, poll, configure, analyze, evaluate,
and control the network and element resources to meet the
real-time, operational performance, and Quality of Service
requirements at a reasonable cost."
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Infrastructure for network management
agent
data
agent
data
agent
data
agent
data
managed device
managed device
managed device
managed device
managing
entity
data
network
management
protocol
definitions:
managed devices contain
managed objects whose
data is gathered into a
Management Information
Base (MIB)

managing entity
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Network Management standards
OSI CMIP
Common Management
Information Protocol
designed 1980s: the
unifying net
management standard
too slowly
standardized

SNMP: Simple Network
Management Protocol
Internet roots (SGMP)
started simple
deployed, adopted rapidly
growth: size, complexity
currently: SNMP V3
de facto network
management standard
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Chapter 9 outline
What is network management?
Internet-standard management framework
Structure of Management Information: SMI
Management Information Base: MIB
SNMP Protocol Operations and Transport Mappings
Security and Administration
ASN.1
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SNMP overview: 4 key parts
Management information base (MIB):
distributed information store of network
management data
Structure of Management Information (SMI):
data definition language for MIB objects
SNMP protocol
convey manager<->managed object info, commands
security, administration capabilities
major addition in SNMPv3
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SMI: data definition language
Purpose: syntax, semantics of
management data well-
defined, unambiguous
base data types:
straightforward, boring
OBJECT-TYPE
data type, status,
semantics of managed
object
MODULE-IDENTITY
groups related objects
into MIB module
Basic Data Types
INTEGER
Integer32
Unsigned32
OCTET STRING
OBJECT IDENTIFIED
IPaddress
Counter32
Counter64
Guage32
Time Ticks
Opaque
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SNMP MIB
OBJECT TYPE:
OBJECT TYPE:
OBJECT TYPE:
objects specified via SMI
OBJECT-TYPE construct


MIB module specified via SMI
MODULE-IDENTITY
(100 standardized MIBs, more vendor-specific)

MODULE
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SMI: Object, module examples
OBJECT-TYPE: ipInDelivers MODULE-IDENTITY: ipMIB
ipInDelivers OBJECT TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
The total number of input
datagrams successfully
delivered to IP user-
protocols (including ICMP)
::= { ip 9}
ipMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED 941101000Z
ORGANZATION IETF SNPv2
Working Group
CONTACT-INFO
Keith McCloghrie

DESCRIPTION
The MIB module for managing IP
and ICMP implementations, but
excluding their management of
IP routes.
REVISION 019331000Z

::= {mib-2 48}
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MIB example: UDP module
Object ID Name Type Comments
1.3.6.1.2.1.7.1 UDPInDatagrams Counter32 total # datagrams delivered
at this node
1.3.6.1.2.1.7.2 UDPNoPorts Counter32 # underliverable datagrams
no app at portl
1.3.6.1.2.1.7.3 UDInErrors Counter32 # undeliverable datagrams
all other reasons
1.3.6.1.2.1.7.4 UDPOutDatagrams Counter32 # datagrams sent
1.3.6.1.2.1.7.5 udpTable SEQUENCE one entry for each port
in use by app, gives port #
and IP address
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SNMP Naming
question: how to name every possible standard object
(protocol, data, more..) in every possible network
standard??
answer: ISO Object Identifier tree:
hierarchical naming of all objects
each branchpoint has name, number
1.3.6.1.2.1.7.1
ISO
ISO-ident. Org.
US DoD
Internet
udpInDatagrams
UDP
MIB2
management
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Check out www.alvestrand.no/harald/objectid/top.html
OSI
Object
Identifier
Tree
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SNMP protocol
Two ways to convey MIB info, commands:
agent data
Managed device
managing
entity
response
agent data
Managed device
managing
entity
trap msg
request
request/response mode trap mode
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SNMP protocol: message types
GetRequest
GetNextRequest
GetBulkRequest
Mgr-to-agent: get me data
(instance,next in list, block)
Message type Function
InformRequest Mgr-to-Mgr: heres MIB value
SetRequest
Mgr-to-agent: set MIB value
Response
Agent-to-mgr: value, response to
Request
Trap Agent-to-mgr: inform manager
of exceptional event
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SNMP protocol: message formats
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SNMP security and administration
encryption: DES-encrypt SNMP message
authentication: compute, send MIC(m,k):
compute hash (MIC) over message (m),
secret shared key (k)
protection against playback: use nonce
view-based access control
SNMP entity maintains database of access
rights, policies for various users
database itself accessible as managed object!
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Chapter 9 outline
What is network management?
Internet-standard management framework
Structure of Management Information: SMI
Management Information Base: MIB
SNMP Protocol Operations and Transport Mappings
Security and Administration
The presentation problem: ASN.1
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The presentation problem
Q: does perfect memory-to-memory copy
solve the communication problem?
A: not always!
problem: different data format, storage conventions
struct {
char code;
int x;
} test;
test.x = 256;
test.code=a
a
00000001
00000011
a

00000011
00000001
test.code
test.x
test.code

test.x
host 1 format
host 2 format
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A real-life presentation problem:
aging 60s
hippie
2007 teenager
grandma
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Presentation problem: potential solutions
1. Sender learns receivers format. Sender translates
into receivers format. Sender sends.
real-world analogy?
pros and cons?
2. Sender sends. Receiver learns senders format.
Receiver translate into receiver-local format
real-world-analogy
pros and cons?
3. Sender translates host-independent format. Sends.
Receiver translates to receiver-local format.
real-world analogy?
pros and cons?
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Solving the presentation problem
1. Translate local-host format to host-independent format
2. Transmit data in host-independent format
3. Translate host-independent format to remote-host
format
aging 60s
hippie
2007 teenager grandma
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ASN.1: Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ISO standard X.680
used extensively in Internet
like eating vegetables, knowing this good for you!
defined data types, object constructors
like SMI
BER: Basic Encoding Rules
specify how ASN.1-defined data objects to be
transmitted
each transmitted object has Type, Length, Value
(TLV) encoding

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TLV Encoding
Idea: transmitted data is self-identifying
T: data type, one of ASN.1-defined types
L: length of data in bytes
V: value of data, encoded according to ASN.1
standard
1
2
3
4
5
6
9
Boolean
Integer
Bitstring
Octet string
Null
Object Identifier
Real
Tag Value Type
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TLV
encoding:
example
Value, 5 octets (chars)
Length, 5 bytes
Type=4, octet string
Value, 259
Length, 2 bytes
Type=2, integer
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Network Management: summary
network management
extremely important: 80% of network cost
ASN.1 for data description
SNMP protocol as a tool for conveying
information
Network management: more art than science
what to measure/monitor
how to respond to failures?
alarm correlation/filtering?